Selfishness Quotes · Page 50

“The most altruistic man is the most selfish.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“How tolerable misfortunes appear when they affect only other people! How strong the human body seems when it's another man's flesh that…

— Irène Némirovsky

When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.

— Indira Gandhi

Lessen selfishness and restrain desires.

— Laozi

“Blame is a human concept, one of its blackest and most selfish and self-binding.”

— Patrick Ness

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

— Honore de Balzac

Call me selfish. But you're one of the blessings that I dont want to share with anyone else.

— Anonymous

What a selfish, hopeless, callous heel of a cad I've been. Blind to the needs of society's lowly unloved. -Charlie

— All Dogs Go To Heaven

That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You must learn to meditate and stop your thoughts. You must overcome all egotism and selfishness by serving others. You must cleanse…

— Frederick Lenz

Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own

— Sallust

“Women are taught to sacrifice, to play nice, to live an altruistic life because a good girl is always rewarded in the…

— G.L. Lambert

He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of…

— Mark Twain

When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone loves and…

— Confucius

“Someone’s a greedy little thing,” he said,”

— Ashley Spector

“Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts.”

— Kenneth Patchen

“I needed so much To have nothing to touch I've always been greedy that way”

— Leonard Cohen

Love . . . [is] a lack of personal selfishness.

— Theodore M. Burton

Advertising is the place where the selfish interests of the manufacturer coincide with the interests of society.

— David Ogilvy

“If You Think that Everyone Swindles You, You are a Selfish Person”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

It will require more than a few hours of fasting and prayer to cast out such demons as selfishness, worldliness, and unbelief.…

— Theodore L. Cuyler

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.

— Nathanael Emmons

Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down…

— Sri Aurobindo

“We've all made selfish, bad decisions We've all tried dishing out the blame Convinced our selves of our own actions My problem…

— Avenged Sevenfold